The Center is pleased to co-sponsor the 2022 McLester Colloquium, hosted by the Department of Religious Studies. Laura Levitt, Temple University will give the McLester talk on March 30th and a classroom/community seminar on March 31st. March 30, 3:30pm, McLester … Read more

We are pleased to co-sponsor film screenings and discussions with filmmaker Avner Faingulernt. Events are in-person at UNC and Duke University. Free and open to the public, no registration required. Schedule of events at Carolina:   Tuesday, March 29, 12:30-1:45pm: … Read more

Join us March 21st, 7pm, for this year’s Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience   Too Long, Too Foreign. . . Too Jewish:  Antisemitism, upward mobility, and name changing in New York City, 1917-1945 with Kirsten Fermaglich, … Read more

Congratulations to Emily Branton, graduate student in the Department of Religious Studies, who was awarded the Center’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship for next academic year. Emily’s dissertation is titled: “Words that Stand: Efficacious Speech in Ancient Israel” and her advisor is … Read more

We are hosting and co-sponsoring a variety of events in the upcoming weeks, including in-person, hybrid and remote options. We are also inviting the public to join some classes this semester when we have a visiting speaker. There is something … Read more

Join us on the June 2022 excavations at Huqoq in Israel   Since 2011, excavations directed by Professor Jodi Magness (Religious Studies) at the ancient village of Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee have been bringing to light a monumental, Late Roman … Read more

Our first lecture of the spring semester is our Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Event January 24, 2022 at 5:30 pm, remote/Zoom, free and open to the public.   How Healers Became Killers: German Physicians and the Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ Program with … Read more

The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to offer fellowships and top up grants for incoming graduate students who have academic and research interests related to the field of Jewish Studies. For graduate students planning to start at Carolina … Read more

The Center is now accepting applications for the 2022-23 Dissertation Completion Fellowship Deadline: January 19, 2022 at 5:00pm This  non-service fellowship supports a promising Carolina graduate student working in Jewish Studies in the advanced stages of his or her career … Read more

The Center’s Lori and Eric Sklut Undergraduate Intern in Jewish Studies has created a short video for other undergraduates interested in academic courses and major/minors, the Center’s events program, Study Abroad opportunities, and grants program.   View on our YouTube … Read more